Imagine what it is like to be one of them

Out of an estimated population of 1.65 million people living in Gaza, Israel has murdered 1,850 people in 28 days. This is as if America with a population of 320 million people had suffered a 9/11 that lasted 28 days during which time 359,000 people were murdered or 12,814 each and every day instead of the actual 2,850 that did die on that one day of September 11, 2001. Imagine 4.5 times 9/11 each day for 28 days.

That was one perspective, and there is another perspective that is as pertinent. The surface area of Israel is 21,643 square kilometers whereas that of Gaza is 360 square kilometers. This means Israel is 60+ times as large as Gaza. Now imagine an Israel that is populated not with 8 million people but 100 million of them. That is, imagine 3 times the population of Canada packed in an Israeli territory that does not include the West Bank.

Suppose now that America had not given Israel an air force with which to terrorize and murder its neighbors, but given it an estimated 600,000 crude rockets to use as deterrence with which to frighten any neighbor that may wish to bomb it from the air, the sea and the land. How close to the populated areas do you think the Israelis will be compelled to put their rockets?

Now change gear and imagine a time in the future when a Super-Putin will rise in Russia, rename it the New Soviet Union, decides to invade Canada and occupies it. To appease the world, especially an America that keeps asking the Super Leader to end the occupation, he pulls his forces out of the Province of British Columbia, calls it British Gaza, and treats it as if it were the new Canada, whereas the rest of old Canada becomes a de facto annexed Soviet territory.

And in the land of the Super-Putin rises a columnist by the name of Bret Stephens who dreams that Canada changed its name to Palestine, thus writes a column under the title: “Palestine and Double Standards” which also comes under the subtitle: “The world is outraged by Israeli self-defense but only 'concerned' when Muslims kill Muslims.” He publishes it on August 5 in the year of the Lord 2014 in a rag they call the Wall Street Journal.

And in that column, Stephens complains not that Israel killed yet another 10 people in a school used by the United Nations as shelter to give refuge to people who lost everything as a result of a strike conducted by the precision bombs that were lobbed on their houses by the American-made air force given to Israel, but complains that the Secretary General of that same United Nations expressed his moral outrage at what he called a criminal act committed by Israel.

Now think about it, Israel exists because that same United Nations thought it was committing an act of kindness by giving the Jews a homeland in Palestine, a place that the Jews said they needed so as to live in peace and quiet, given that humanity suffers from a genetic defect which makes people flinch at the thought of having to interact with a Jew. But instead of just being kind to Jews, the world body now realizes it has created a super-monster that is living up to its reputation of being the calamity that has been holding humanity's progress back during all those centuries. Is this a manifestation of buyer's remorse?

In fact, it may be more than that when you realize that what powers the thinking of people like Stephens is a philosophy that has come to be called Dershowism – so named after Alan Dershowitz who said that Israel has the right to do to the Palestinians, all the evil that anyone has ever done to a third party. Thus, instead of looking at examples that may resemble the situation in Palestine, Stephens and those like him look at situations that have nothing to do with the current situation in Palestine.

For example, he complains of the “saturation coverage of an Israeli strike near a U.N.-run school that killed 10 people,” and neglects to compare that with the saturation coverage of the occasional confrontations that occur between the Canadian police and one or the other of the native tribes where no one gets killed. Or the coverage of Tienanmen Square, of the downing of an airliner over Ukraine, of the Jewish inspired Google stunt showing South Sudan on fire, of the intervention in the former Yugoslavia, and Iraq, and Libya and so on and so forth.

It is called cherry picking. But to what end? Nobody is fooled by this sort of distortions but the American Congress of idiots which fails to impress anyone, anyway.